War Iran-United States Military Crisis of 2020 - US Baghdad embassy under siege, rocket fire in US Baghdad green zone, Ukrainian Airlines flight 752 crash, and more!

January 10th:
Exclusive: Informants in Iraq, Syria helped U.S. kill Iran's Soleimani - sources (archive)(post)
Iraqi Shia cleric whose militia killed American troops says crisis is over following Iran strike and Trump speech (archive)(post)
Iraqi PM tells US to decide mechanism for troop withdrawal (archive)(post)
Mike Pence says Congress might 'compromise sources and methods' if fully briefed on the Soleimani strike (archive)(post)
Unidentified planes hit Iraqi militiamen in Syria, killing 8 (archive)(post)
Iraq: The Master Of Mayhem Meets A Missile (archive)(post)
Eliminating Qasem Soleimani was Donald Trump’s Middle East farewell letter (archive)(post)
Iran uses BULLDOZERS to clear debris from plane crash site while accusing US of ‘big lie’ that they shot it down (archive)(post)
Swiss Back Channel Helped Defuse U.S.-Iran Crisis (post)

January 11th:
UKRAINIAN AIRCRAFT WAS BROUGHT DOWN IN IRAN DUE TO 'HUMAN ERROR' (archive)(post)
Iran minister says 'human error' caused by 'US adventurism' led to deadly crash of Ukrainian jetliner (archive)(post)
Ukrainian aircraft was brought down in Iran due to 'human error' (archive)(post)
Trump, at Ohio rally, says Democrats would have leaked Soleimani attack plans (archive)(post)
The Atlantic's David Frum blames Trump for downing of plane in Iran, deaths of 176 (archive)(post)
Associated Press changes ‘shockingly bad’ headline about Soleimani, Ukrainian plane crash after backlash (archive)(post)
GOP Rep. Doug Collins apologizes for saying Democrats are 'in love with terrorists' (archive)(post)
Iran demands West 'show findings' as new video reveals aircraft was struck before fiery crash (archive)(post)
Warren town hall interrupted by angry protester accusing her of ‘siding with terrorists’ (archive)(post)
Trump administration announces new sanctions on Iran (archive)(post)
Prepare For the Worst From Iran Cyber Attacks, As DHS Issues Warning: Experts (archive)(post)
Trump tells Fox News' Laura Ingraham 'four embassies' were targeted in imminent threat from Iran (archive)(post)
Trump tweets support for Iranian protesters as they demand Khamenei quit (archive)(post)
Trump warns Iran against ‘another massacre’ as protests flare over downed jet (archive)(post)

January 12th:
Trump tweet in Farsi 'the most liked Persian tweet' in history of Twitter (archive)(post)
Iraq warned to keep US troops or risk financial blow-WSJ (archive)(post)
Iran arrests UK ambassador in what Britain calls ‘flagrant violation of international law’ (archive)(post)

January 13th:
Trump authorized Soleimani's killing 7 months ago, with conditions (archive)(post)

edit: This is a WIP. All links are posted in the order they appear in the thread, not in chronological order of their publication.


---Original OP before the merge---
Iraqi supporters of Iran-backed militia attack US Embassy
https://apnews.com/75228a8a607a44863b57021ac33264dc (http://archive.vn/ljm9Y)

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA12 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (AP) — Dozens of angry Iraqi Shiite militia supporters broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday after smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area, prompting tear gas and sounds of gunfire.

An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw flames rising from inside the compound and at least three U.S. soldiers on the roof of the main building inside embassy. It was not clear what caused the fire at the reception area near the parking lot of the compound. A man on a loudspeaker urged the mob not to enter the compound, saying: “The message was delivered.”

The embassy attack followed deadly U.S. airstrikes on Sunday that killed 25 fighters of the Iran-backed militia in Iraq, the Kataeb Hezbollah. The U.S. military said it was in retaliation for last week’s killing of an American contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base that it had blamed on the militia.

Dozens of protesters marched inside the compound after smashing the gate used by cars to enter the embassy. The protesters, many in militia uniform, stopped in a corridor after about 5 meters (16 feet), and were only about 200 meters away from the main building. Half a dozen U.S. soldiers were seen on the roof of the main building, their guns were pointed at the protesters.

Smoke from the tear gas rose in the area, and at least three of the protesters appeared to have difficulties breathing. It wasn’t immediately known whether the embassy staff had remained inside the main building.

The protesters hanged a poster on the wall: “America is an aggressor.”

Shouting “Down, Down USA,” the crowd tried to push inside the embassy grounds, hurling water and stones over its walls. They raised yellow militia flags and taunted the embassy’s security staff who remained behind the glass windows in the gates’ reception area. They sprayed graffiti on the wall and windows in red in support of the Kataeb Hezbollah militia: “Closed in the name of the resistance.”

Hundreds of angry protesters, some in militia uniforms, set up tents outside the embassy. As tempers rose, the mob set fire to three trailers used by security guards along the embassy wall.

No one was immediately reported hurt in the rampage and security staff had withdrawn to inside the embassy earlier, soon after protesters gathered outside.

The U.S. attack — the largest targeting an Iraqi state-sanctioned militia in recent years — and the subsequent calls by the militia for retaliation, represent a new escalation in the proxy war between the U.S. and Iran playing out in the Middle East.

Tuesday’s attempted embassy storming took place after mourners and supporters held funerals for the militia fighters killed in a Baghdad neighborhood, after which they marched on to the heavily fortified Green Zone and kept walking till they reached the sprawling U.S. Embassy there.

AP journalists then saw the crowd as they tried to scale the walls of the embassy, in what appeared to be an attempt to storm it, shouting “Down, down USA!” and “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday’s strikes send the message that the U.S. will not tolerate actions by Iran that jeopardize American lives.

The Iranian-backed Iraqi militia had vowed Monday to retaliate for the U.S. military strikes. The attack and vows for revenge raised concerns of new attacks that could threaten American interests in the region.

The U.S. attack also outraged both the militias and the Iraqi government, which said it will reconsider its relationship with the U.S.-led coalition — the first time it has said it will do so since an agreement was struck to keep some U.S. troops in the country. It called the attack a “flagrant violation” of its sovereignty.

In a partly televised meeting Monday, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi told Cabinet members that he had tried to stop the U.S. operation “but there was insistence” from American officials.

The U.S. military said “precision defensive strikes” were conducted against five sites of Kataeb Hezbollah, or Hezbollah Brigades in Iraq and Syria. The group, which is a separate force from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, operates under the umbrella of the state-sanctioned militias known collectively as the Popular Mobilization Forces. Many of them are supported by Iran.

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[Ellesse_warrior]

Fuck me, 56 Iranians die in stampede at Suleimanii funeral, now they shoot down a plane and kill 82 more of their own citizens. That's 138x kill multiplier on the drone strike, good work!

At this rate Iran is going to wipe themselves out without any further US intervention.

On their way to an own goal hat trick

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Shitty day. I hope someone is with the relatives of the killed and providing them at least some sort of consolation.

Hopefully none were kiwis.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Look, man, everyone is entitled to an opinion but I recommend you to drop that ignorant globalist point of view or, at least, read a little before going full USA = BAD. Iran is no victim here. Their population is little more than hostages to a bunch of religious madmen in charge of a country that could be one of the biggest and most prosper oil superpowers on earth but decided to spread violence and hatred all around the globe. Qassem Suleimani was behind the only two terrorist attacks my country ever had where +500 people died for the cardinal sin of living next to an embassy or work in or near a jewish cultural center.

And this shit has been systematic. They have or had presence in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Russia, China, Ukraine, Croatia, Irak, etc. Every time there's shit going down where people get killed by the ton, they seem to have a foothold in the region. Stop thinking they're helpless victims just because there are bigger and better armed countries out there. They're scum.

Let me make my point dead simple. You go to Washington and you have your Jefferson memorial, your Lincoln memorial, your Washington monument, your WWII memorial... they have this:

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If this little monument doesn't snap you their entire ideology, I don't know what does.

The biggest issue I have with the whole Iran dindu nothing side of things, is it almost seems like the mirror image of the way many boomers are when it comes to Israel.

They don't like Muslims, it means they must be good V.S. they don't like Jews, it means they must be good.

 

[JongleJingle]

Holy jesus, I wake up and Iran takes down a fucking civvie airliner? A UKRAINIAN one? WITH NO SURVIVORS?

I am laughing my fucking ass off at how incompetent Iran is right now. They better prepare the lube, cuz now they just pissed off Ukraine and MAYBE Russia.

I told yall things would get lit, but not THIS lit. RIP those poor bastards on that airliner. Vengeance will come soon for your deaths.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE]

Iran is looking like the guilty one now.

Especially after shooting down the airliner.

Should have just sat down and did jack shit cuz at least they could have taken north Korea route and save face.

Also Graham got off the phone with Trump and changed his tone from "calm down bros. No cultural heritage sites pls" to "lol bitch good luck with Trump vengeance. "

what the fuck did they talk about.

 

[Vince McMahon]

Hopefully none were kiwis.

Killed or providing consolation?

 

[Pepito The Cat]

They don't like Muslims, it means they must be good V.S. they don't like Jews, it means they must be good

Maybe you should stop considering what "they" think and start formulating your own conclusions by reading the accounts of all parties, not just one side.

Go give the Ayatollah's a good read and see what they claim it is a "holy war"

 

[Trig.Point]

Its less Iran itself and more who they are friends with if either Russia or china pitch in in america and irans shitflinging contest we are all fucked

China and Russia don't give a fuck about Iran, if war kicks off they'll drip feed enough weapons into the country to make life hard for the US, but not enough that the US will feel forced to take action.

This is incidentally exactly the same way Iran supports Hezbollah, they make an assessment of what they can actually do before Israel takes action against them. It's all a balancing act for them. Look at the tweets coming from Iranian Government sources before Suleimani was killed goading the US government. They crossed a line without realising it, because the current US President is addicted to twitter.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Maybe you should stop considering what "they" think and start formulating your own conclusions by reading the accounts of all parties, not just one side.

Go give the Ayatollah's a good read and see what they claim it is a "holy war"

I think you misread my post. I don't like any side over there.

 

[JongleJingle]

Iran is looking like the guilty one now.

Especially after shooting down the airliner.

Should have just sat down and did jack shit cuz at least they could have taken north Korea route and save face.

Also Graham got off the phone with Trump and changed his tone from "calm down bros. No cultural heritage sites pls" to "lol bitch good luck with Trump vengeance. "

what the fuck did they talk about.

That speech is going to rock this little ball of dirt. Shit is gonna go DOWN.

 

[Otterly]

How will those european countries react? will they blame orange man for getting their citizens killed? or will they point fingers at iran for killing them?

or both?

Uk government seems to be quietly shuffling its feet and is probably telling everyone to calm the fuck down via back channels. If this was a fuck up, everyone is going to want to sweep it under the carpet and forget about it. No one in the uk wants to go to war with Iran. The Iraq war war really unpopular here. We want out of the Middle East.
To establish the cause of the plane crash will take a while, unless someone finds a bit of SAM with a pinup mullah and ‘take that’ painted on the side. My feeling is a stupid, dumb accident (missile, someone’s surveillance drone hitting it) rather than intentional or mechanical but we’d need to wait for a proper investigation. If one happens at all -I can’t see Iran rolling out the red carpet for Boeing to assist.

the losers will be the average Iranian, who lives in a theocratic hellhole crippled by sanctions, Europeans who will no doubt be facing a few activated terror cells, and US service personnel who will be even more of a target than before.
Iran is weak in terms of a boots on the ground war. They’d be crushed. But they aren’t weak in terms of influence behind the scenes in other countries.
The USA has the luxury of being able to withdraw if they want to. The rest of us on the Eurasian landmass dont. The response here was supposed to be Iran being allowed to fire some missiles at the USA bases and say theyd hit the great Satan and were done. This is a wildcard, and those are dangerous.

 

[FlightOfTheBumbleBee]

Seems obvious that President Trump has outsmarted everyone once again. They were setting up a trap for him in Iraq and Iran, and President Trump outsmarted them. They want him to go to war with iran because they think it will ruin his reelection. This is not the first time he has turned the tables on his enemies. They lied about Trump-Russia collusion, they lied about Obama spying on Trump, it's like they lie about everything. Trump keeps telling the truth, and then Democrats and never Trumpers accuse President Trump of lying, but in the end Trump is proven right. Shit, i'm starting to think that Obama was born in kenya and that Trump really did have the biggest inauguration ever because Obama actually isn't a US president. Crazy. Maybe climate change is a Chinese conspiracy? Maybe 9/11 was an inside job and school shootings are engineered by the CIA.

Ex-FBI agent breaks down over Florida school shooting

Ex-FBI and Former CIA counterterrorism agent Phil Mudd breaks down as he tries to offer his analysis of the shooting Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in ...

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[Vince McMahon]

To establish the cause of the plane crash will take a while, unless someone finds a bit of SAM with a pinup mullah and ‘take that’ painted on the side.

Iranians said that they're not going to hand over the black box to Boeing.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

That speech is going to rock this little ball of dirt. Shit is gonna go DOWN.

I just want him to go on TV...and burst out laughing.

 

[Gangster Talk]

Also, can we have an official Iran Lolcow thread now?

In a single night they managed to Shoot a Missile at an Ukrainian plane and an American Airbase yet almost killed more Iranians than they did anyone else (Plz if God is watching..reach down and save 2 Canadians for the memes)

Also it is a shame they shot 38 missiles instead of 37.

if they shot 37 missiles..we could have all the Clerks memes involved in this.

Let's not forget that earlier yesterday a butthurt-induced stampede occurred at Solemani's funeral in which over 50 people died.

 

[Not Really Here]

LEAVE UKRAINE ALONE

how does it keep ending up in the national spotlight for the worst shit

Because they gave up their nukes without a binding treaty with the US and Russian Federation.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE]

Iranians said that they're not going to hand over the black box to Boeing.

lol they did it.

 

[Vince McMahon]

lol they did it.

Or they think they might've done it but don't know for certain.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Because they gave up their nukes without a binding treaty with the US and Russian Federation.

As Seinfield Told us ages ago

"THE UKRAINE IS WEAK!"

 

[Shield Breaker]

In the modern era, everyone just wants to see their Prosecutor General waifu again.
(I guess she's an MP now. But still.)

I had no idea this was a thing. At first I thought it was a little creepy, but then I read an article about how her nine year-old daughter loves that people made her mom an 'anime heroine.'

Iran is looking like the guilty one now.

Especially after shooting down the airliner.

Should have just sat down and did jack shit cuz at least they could have taken north Korea route and save face.

Also Graham got off the phone with Trump and changed his tone from "calm down bros. No cultural heritage sites pls" to "lol bitch good luck with Trump vengeance. "

what the fuck did they talk about.

Someone in the thread earlier speculated the 'historic' comments are a veiled threat to their broken down planes.